The first in a trilogy of movies adult animation films by Tezuka's Mushi Production known as Animerama, it is very loosely based on One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and features Aladdin as its main character. This version of Aladdin is cowardly and perverted, but also ambitious, adventureous, and unflappable. The film focuses on his adventures, starting when he finds the beautiful slave girl Miriam. Like the other films in the Animerama, it prides itself as "adult animation," and features plenty of female nudity and sexual content, but nothing explicit is ever shown. In place of traditional sex scenes there are some wonderfuldreamlike psychedelic scenes that would be used to full effect in Belladona of Sadness. There is a large admixture of irreverent humor mixed alongside the serious plot, but unlike in Cleopatra it does not clash with the tone. The heart of the film seems to be in this mix of humor with a serious adventure film, and the film does a decent job with that. It's not an amazing film and it's a little long for what it is, but it's still a good film for what it is. Serious themes, especially rape, torture, and murder, are depicted in the film. The protagonist Aladdin is generally amoral and self-serving, but he still contrasts to the villain, Badli, who is a heartless murder and rapist. The animation is generally good for the time period, and stands up rather well. Overall a decent film, and much better, balanced, and coherent than the later Cleopatra, though not up to the level of Belladona of Sadness.